Cricket World Cup Winners Home > Events > Cricket > Cricket World Cup > Winners World Cup Results In the eleven ICC Cricket World Cups held so far, five different teams have won the tournament. Australia is the most successful World Cup team having won the tournament five times, and were runner up another two times. West Indies won the first two tournaments, and India have also won it two times. Pakistan and Sri Lanka have won one tournament each. Sri Lanka (1996) and India (2011) are the only hosts to win, when they co-hosted the tournament. Winners List The following is a list of the winning country and runner up for each Cricket World Cup. Click on the country names for more country information, or click on the year for more information about the tournament for that year. year Team history at Cricket World Cup - West Indies (1975-2011) Team history at Cricket World Cup - West Indies (1975-2011) West Indies' history at Cricket World Cups.

Analysis 15 Dec 2014, 13:55 IST Clive Lloyd with the World Cup trophy in 1979 The West Indies completely dominated World Cup cricket in the initial stages of the tournament’s history, but since then, they haven’t even come close. They did win the World T20 championship in Sri Lanka two years ago. But as far as ODI World Cups go, they won the inaugural Prudential World Cup in 1975, then again in 1979, and were stopped from winning it a third time by India in the 1983 final. All the three finals took place at Lord’s - the iconic “home of cricket” - and the one in 1983 proved that teams other than the West Indies could also win the tournament. They did make it to the semi-finals in 1996 but lost to Australia in a closely fought contest by just 5 runs. One could say that the Indians have a knack of ending a team’s domination at World Cups, as they broke Australia’s streak of three consecutive World Cups in 2011 by ousting them from the tournament in the quarter-finals.

Here goes a detailed analysis of how the men from the Caribbean have fared in the championships: Performance Statistics They have a fairly healthy overall winning percentage at World Cups, and the wins are largely skewed towards the earlier editions of the tournament, while the losses appear more towards the latter editions. Their favourite opposition are Zimbabwe against whom they have a perfect record, while their least impressive record is against the English. Overall record 16.67 Best Skipper They have had great cricketers like Sir Viv Richards, Sir Richie Richardson, Brian Lara, Carl Hooper as captains, but none of them have achieved close to what the first of them did. Clive Lloyd leading his side onto the field Clive Lloyd is, arguably, the best World Cup captain of all-time. He led his country to two World Cup victories in addition to a World Cup final. Australia’s Ricky Ponting comes close with two wins. Although he had an impeccable team at his command with some of the greatest names of the game in his line-up, his brilliant tactics as captain played a huge role in the dominance that West Indies cricket had on world cricket for a better part of 10 years.

He was captain for 17 World Cup games and led his team to victory in 15 of them. They won all of their matches in 1975 and 1979. In 1983, meanwhile, they lost twice to India, once in the group stages and then again in the final. In addition to his astute captaincy, he was also an excellent batsman who had a whopping 31,232 first-class runs and 10,915 List A runs to his name. Best performances 1975 West Indies registered wins against Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia to cruise through the group stages. They were table toppers as expected when they entered the knockouts. Their first encounter was with New Zealand in the semi-finals. The Kiwis only managed to put on 158 on the board as Bernard Julien, Andy Roberts and Vanburn Holder ran through their line-up. Man of the match Alvin Kallicharran led the chase for the West Indies with the high score of 72, and Gordon Greenidge helped with a handy 55. They won the game by 5 wickets.

Winners of the first World Cup ever (1975) The final was as dramatic a game as any. West Indies produced a mixed bag of performances batting first – opener Fredericks got out hit wicket, falling onto his stumps following a miscued hook to Dennis Lillee, Greenidge scored just the 13 off 61 balls, and skipper Lloyd smashed a hundred off just 85 balls. Rohan Kanhai partnered him well at the other end without doing much of the hitting himself. West Indies posted 291/8 from their allocated 60 overs. Australia’s reply was stunted to start with, but an innings of 62 from captain Ian Chappell helped the Aussies post a recovery. However, they were staring down the barrel at 233/9 when a 41-run last wicket stand between Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson took them to within 18 runs of a win. The partnership was finally broken when the West Indies effected the fifth run-out of the Australian innings. Richards, who hadn’t contributed with the bat in the game, made up for it by effecting three of them.

1979 Once again, the Lloyd-led side was at the top of the table as they entered the knockouts. The semi-final against Pakistan saw all of their batsmen among the runs as they put on a formidable 293 for Pakistan to chase, with Greenidge top-scoring with 73. Pakistan received an early setback in their reply when they lost their first wicket with just 10 on the board. But then, Majid Khan and Zaheer Abbas pulled off a resurrection with a 166-run partnership. Both of them were sent back by Colin Croft, who then dismissed Javed Miandad leg before off his very first delivery. Richards followed suit and cleaned up the middle-order with the wickets of Asif Iqbal, Mudassar Nazar and Imran Khan. Roberts was only too happy to take out the tail after that to hand the West Indies a 43-run win and their second World Cup finals berth. The stars of the final were the destructive Richards and Collis King. The former got a hundred while the latter played the role of the subordinate with a quick-fire 66-ball 86 as West Indies put on 286 on the board.

All was going well for England with the score at 183/2 with Derek Randall and Graham Gooch at the crease at one stage. Joel Garner and Croft demolished the England batting with 5 and 3 wickets, respectively, within a space of 11 runs to hand West Indies a comfortable 92-run win and the title of supremacy once again. 1983 West Indies’ first loss in World Cups came in the third edition of the tournament when they lost against India on 9 June, 1983, in a group game. It was inconsequential, however, as they reached the finals, where India proved to be the better team once again just 16 days later. The semi-final was hardly a close game as they chased down Pakistan’s paltry total of 184 for the loss of just 2 wickets. Richards was top-scorer once again with 80 not out. The final was something that not even the staunchest of Indian fans would’ve expected. India had put on just 183 on the board, which looked very much gettable at the innings break.

But it wasn’t just meant to happen for the two-time World Cup winners this time. Greenidge being bowled through the gate courtesy of a peach from seamer Balwinder Singh Sandhu, the famous mistimed hook from the in-form Richards followed by the stunner caught by Kapil Dev hurtling towards the boundary, and the crucial wicket of wicketkeeper Jeff Dujon off the bowling of Man of the Match Mohinder Amarnath – all did the work of putting India in the driver’s seat as they registered a historic 43-run win and ended the West Indian domination once and for all. Worst performance 2011 They finished fourth in their group and were just able to scrape through to the quarter-finals on the basis of net run rate, as Bangladesh had as many points (3 wins from 6 games) as they had. They registered wins against Bangladesh, Ireland and the Netherlands but lost to India, England and South Africa. The quarter-final was a forgettable game for them in which they were bulldozed out of the tournament by Pakistan. They managed only 112 batting first, and Pakistan reached home with all 10 wickets intact.

West Indies finished 8th overall, their lowest ever standing in a World Cup. They were eliminated in the quarter-finals in all World Cups apart from the 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1996 editions. Top performers Brian Lara & Sir Vivian Richards – the stalwarts of West Indies cricket Brian Lara is the top World Cup batsman for his country with 1225 runs in 34 games, including two hundreds, at an average of 42.24. Sir Viv is a close second with 1013 runs in just 23 games including three hundreds. Courtney Walsh is the most successful bowler with 27 scalps from 17 games, Andy Roberts follows second with 26, and Curtly Ambrose is third with 24. Out of the contemporary ones, Shivnarine Chanderpaul has the most runs (970) and Kemar Roach has the most (13) wickets to his name. As far as individual match performances go, Sir Viv tops the list.

His match-winning performances of 181 against Sri Lanka at Karachi (1987), 138* against England at Lord’s (1979) and 119 versus India at the Oval (1983) occupy the top three places. Gayle’s 119 versus Kenya (2003) and Lara’s two hundreds against South Africa (2003, 1996) follow. Winston Davis’s 7/51 against Australia at Leeds in 1983 and Kemar Roach’s 6/27 against the Dutch at Delhi in 2011 top the list of best bowling figures in an innings. Memorable matches World Cup 1996 – Semi Final (West Indies v Australia, Mohali) West Indies looked all set for another final with Ambrose and Ian Bishop doing the early damage with 2 wickets apiece, sending back the Waugh brothers, Ricky Ponting and Mark Taylor with just 15 on the scoreboard. Stuart Law and Michael Bevan began the rebuilding process and took the score from 15/4 to 153 before they got out within minutes of each other.

Ian Healy contributed with a much valuable 31 in the latter part of the innings. The West Indies were well on track with Chanderpaul (80) and Richie Richardson (49) batting, with only 43 required with 8 wickets in hand. Glenn McGrath then sent back Chanderpaul, and something followed which Richardson at the other end could never have been prepared for. He ran out of partners just 5 runs short of the target. Roger Harper was out next - leg before again to McGrath. Bishop, Ottis Gibson and Jimmy Adams fell prey to Warne’s spin, Ambrose was run out, and Keith Arthurton and Walsh were sent back by Damien Fleming to hand Australia a thrilling victory by 5 runs. An overjoyed outfit after their win against the Proteas at Cape Town World Cup 2003 (West Indies v South Africa, Cape Town) West Indies batted first. Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds departed early, and it was a perfect setting for Lara to take his time and craft a masterpiece with the likes of Chanderpaul, Hooper and Ricardo Powell supporting him at the other end.

He scored 116 off 134 balls in an innings that was slow and watchful to begin with but gathered pace towards the end. Powell smashed a 40 off 18 balls and Ramnaresh Sarwan belted 32 off just 15 to give West Indies a late boost and take their score to 278, a score which once seemed very improbable. Opener Gary Kirsten held the fort for the Proteas initially with a handy 69. Mark Boucher took matters into his hands after he got out and scored 49 off 49 to take the South Africans over the 200-mark, bringing hopes of a victory back. Lance Klusener continued the good work. He got to his fifty in a flash, hitting 5 sixes and just the one boundary. He fell off the third ball of the 49th and final over of the game (they were penalised one over for slow bowling), with 8 runs still needed to win. Makhaya Ntini ate up the next two balls for his short innings, and Nicky Boje faced the final delivery without scoring.

West Indies won the dramatic opener by 3 runs to set the tone for the rest of the tournament. 1975 Cricket World Cup Final - Australia v West Indies - YouTube 1975 Cricket World Cup Final - Australia v West Indies Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Dec 3, 2015 The West Indies defeat Australia by 17 runs to win the first ever cricket World Cup, with the final played at Lords. Category Cricket World Cup England 1975 Sri Lanka East Africa (composed of players from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) A notable omission from the tournament was the South African cricket team who were not competing due to the international sports boycott. The preliminary matches were played in 2 groups of 4 teams. The top two teams from each group played the semifinals, and the winners of these played the final.

The final was played at the Lords ground , between West Indies and Australia, with the favorites the West Indies winning by 17 runs. The West Indies scored 291 runs in 60 overs at a loss of 8 wickets. In reply Australia made274 runs in 58.4 overs all out. The West Indian captain was Clive Lloyd. New Zealand and England were the other semifinalists. Share: World Cup | Cricket Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Share The ICC Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years. The tournament is the world's fourth-largest and fourth-most-viewed sporting event. According to the ICC, it is the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the sport.The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975. A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973.

The finals of the Cricket World Cup are contested by all ten Test-playing and ODI-playing nations, together with other nations that qualify through the World Cup Qualifier. Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles. The West Indies and India have won twice, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka have each won once. Before the first Cricket World Cup The first ever international cricket match was played between Canada and the United States, on the 24 and 25 September 1844.[6] However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 between Australia and England, and the two teams competed regularly for The Ashes in subsequent years. South Africa was admitted to Test status in 1889.[7] Representative cricket teams were selected to tour each other, resulting in bilateral competition. Cricket was also included as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Games, where Great Britain defeated France to win the gold medal.[8] This was the only appearance of cricket at the Summer Olympics.

The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa. The event was not a success: the summer was exceptionally wet, making play difficult on damp uncovered pitches, and attendances were poor, attributed to a "surfeit of cricket".[9] In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999. The number of nations playing Test cricket increased gradually over the years, with the addition of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952, but international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days. In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day.

Starting in 1962 with a four-team knockout competition known as the Midlands Knock-Out Cup,[10] and continuing with the inaugural Gillette Cup in 1963, one-day cricket grew in popularity in England. A national Sunday League was formed in 1969. The first One-Day International event was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd. It was a forty over match with eight balls per over.[11] In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket (WSC) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics. The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979.

The success and popularity of the domestic one-day competitions in England and other parts of the world, as well as the early One-Day Internationals, prompted the ICC to consider organising a Cricket World Cup.[12] [edit]Prudential World Cups The Prudential Cup trophy The inaugural Cricket World Cup was hosted in 1975 by England, the only nation able to put forward the resources to stage an event of such magnitude at that time. The 1975 tournament started on 7 June.[13] The first three events were held in England and officially known as the Prudential Cup after the sponsors Prudential plc. The matches consisted of 60 six-ball overs per team, played during the daytime in traditional form, with the players wearing cricket whites and using red cricket balls.[14] Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies (the six Test nations at the time), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.[15] One notable omission was South Africa, who were banned from international cricket due to apartheid.

The tournament was won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lord's.[15] The 1979 World Cup saw the introduction of the ICC Trophy competition to select non-Test playing teams for the World Cup,[16] with Sri Lanka and Canada qualifying.[17] West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts, England, by 92 runs in the final. At a meeting which followed the World Cup, the International Cricket Conference agreed to make the competition a quadrennial event.[17] The 1983 event was hosted by England for a third consecutive time. By this time, Sri Lanka had become a Test-playing nation, and Zimbabwe qualified through the ICC Trophy. A fielding circle was introduced, 30 yards (27 m) away from the stumps.

Four fieldsmen needed to be inside it at all times.[18] India, an outsider quoted at 66–1 to win by bookmakers before the competition began, were crowned champions after upsetting the West Indies by 43 runs in the final.[12][19] [edit]1987–1996 The 1987 tournament, named the Reliance World Cup after their Indian sponsors, was held in India and Pakistan, the first time that the competition was held outside England. The games were reduced from 60 to 50 overs per innings, the current standard, because of the shorter daylight hours in the Indian subcontinent compared with England's summer.[20] Australia won the championship by defeating England by 7 runs in the final, the closest margin in World Cup final history.[21][22] The 1992 World Cup, held in Australia and New Zealand, introduced many changes to the game, such as coloured clothing, white balls, day/night matches, and an alteration to the fielding restrictions.

The South African cricket team participated in the event for the first time, following the fall of the apartheid regime and the end of the international sports boycott.[23] Pakistan overcame a dismal start to emerge as winners, defeating England by 22 runs in the final and therefore winning the first white-ball world cup.[24] The 1996 championship was held in the Indian subcontinent for a second time, with the inclusion of Sri Lanka as host for some of its group stage matches.[25] In the semi-final, Sri Lanka, heading towards a crushing victory over India at Eden Gardens (Calcutta) after their hosts lost eight wickets while scoring 120 runs in pursuit of 254, were awarded victory by default after crowd unrest broke out in protest against the Indian performance.[26] Sri Lanka went on to win their maiden championship by defeating Australia by seven wickets in the final, which was held in Lahore.[27] [edit]Australian treble In 1999 the event was hosted by England, with some matches also being held in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands.[28][29] Australia qualified for the semi-finals after reaching their target in their Super 6 match

 against South Africa off the final over of the match.[30] They then proceeded to the final with a tied match in the semi-final (also against South Africa) where a mix-up between South African batsmen Lance Klusener and Allan Donald saw Donald drop his bat and stranded mid-pitch to be run out.

In the final, Australia dismissed Pakistan for 132 and then reached the target in less than 20 overs, with eight wickets in hand.[31] A large crowd of over 10,000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney. South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya hosted the 2003 World Cup. The number of teams participating in the event increased from twelve to fourteen. Kenya's victories over Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, among others – and a forfeit by the New Zealand team, which refused to play in Kenya because of security concerns – enabled Kenya to reach the semi-finals, the best result by an associate.

In the final, Australia made 359 runs for the loss of two wickets, the largest ever total in a final, defeating India by 125 runs.[32][33] In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies; the Cricket World Cup became the first such tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.[34] Bangladesh progressed to the second round for the first time, after defeating India, and they later went on to defeat South Africa in the second round.[35] Ireland making their World Cup debut tied with Zimbabwe and defeated Pakistan to progress to the second round, where they went on to defeat Bangladesh to get promoted to the main ODI table.[36] Following their defeat to Ireland, the Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room; it was later found out that he died of heart failure,[37] though his death may not have been a direct result of the match's outcome.

Australia defeated Sri Lanka in the final by 53 runs (D/L), in farcical light conditions, extending their undefeated run in the World Cup to 29 matches and winning three straight World Cups.[38] [edit]2011 Main article: 2011 Cricket World Cup The 2011 Cricket World Cup was jointly hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Pakistan were stripped of their hosting rights following the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, with the games originally scheduled for Pakistan redistributed to the other host countries. The 2011 World Cup was the tenth edition of the tournament. Fourteen teams participated, split into two pools of seven teams each. The top four teams from each group qualified for the quarter-finals. India won their second World Cup title by beating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in Mumbai, thus becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil.India's Yuvraj Singh was declared the man of the tournament. This is first time in World cup history that two Asian teams appeared in final. This was also the first time since 1992 World Cup that the final match did not feature Australia.

India and Sri Lanka between them have made it to the finals of all World Cup tournaments in this millennium [39] [edit]Future Main articles: 2015 Cricket World Cup and 2019 Cricket World Cup The next World Cups will be hosted by Australia and New Zealand in 2015, and England and Wales in 2019. [edit]Format [edit]Qualification Main article: Cricket World Cup qualification The Test-playing nations qualify automatically for the World Cup main event, while the other teams have to qualify through a series of preliminary qualifying tournaments. The One Day International playing nations automatically enter the final qualification tournament, the World Cup Qualifier, along with other nations who have qualified through separate competitions. Qualifying tournaments were introduced for the second World Cup, where two of the eight places in the finals were awarded to the leading teams in the ICC Trophy.[16] The number of teams selected through the ICC Trophy has varied throughout the years; currently, six teams are selected for the Cricket World Cup.

The World Cricket League (administered by the International Cricket Council) is the qualification system provided to allow the Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC more opportunities to qualify.The name "ICC Trophy" has been changed to "ICC World Cup Qualifier".[40] Under the current qualifying process, the World Cricket League, all 91 Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC are able to qualify for the World Cup. Associate and Affiliate members must play between two and five stages in the ICC World Cricket League to qualify for the World Cup finals, depending on the Division in which they start the qualifying process. Process summary in chronological order: Regional tournaments: Top teams from each regional tournaments will be promoted to a division depending on the teams' rankings according to the ICC and each division's empty spots. Division One: 6 Teams – All automatically qualify for the World Cup Qualifier. Division Three: 6 Teams – Top 2 promoted to Division Two. Division Two: 6 Teams – Top 4 qualify for the World Cup Qualifier. Division Five: 6 Teams – Top 2 promoted to Division Four. Division Four: 6 Teams – Top 2 promoted to Division Three.

Division Three (second edition): 6 Teams – Top 2 qualify for the World Cup Qualifier. World Cup Qualifier: 12 Teams – Top 6 are awarded ODI status and Top 4 qualify for the World Cup. [edit]Tournament See also: History of the Cricket World Cup#Historical formats of final tournament The captains of the 2007 Cricket World Cup. The format of the Cricket World Cup has changed greatly over the course of its history. Each of the first four tournaments was played by eight teams, divided into two groups of four.[41] There, competition comprised two stages, a group stage and a knock-out stage. The four teams in each group played each other in the round-robin group stage, with the top two teams in each group progressing to the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals played against each other in the final.

With the return of South Africa in 1992 after the ending of the apartheid boycott, nine teams played each other once in the group phase, and the top four teams progressed to the semi-finals.[42] The tournament was further expanded in 1996, with two groups of six teams.[43] The top four teams from each group progressed to quarter-finals and semi-finals. A new format was used for the 1999 and 2003 World Cups. The teams were split into two pools, with the top three teams in each pool advancing to the Super 6.[44] The "Super 6" teams played the three other teams that advanced from the other group. As they advanced, the teams carried their points forward from previous matches against other teams advancing alongside them, giving them an incentive to perform well in the group stages.[44] The top four teams from the "Super 6" stage progressed to the semi-finals, with winners playing in the final. The last format used in the 2007 World Cup, features 16 teams allocated into four groups of four.[45] Within each group, the teams play each other in a round-robin format.

Teams earn points for wins and half-points for ties. The top two teams from each group move forward to the Super 8 round. The "Super 8" teams play the other six teams that progressed from the different groups. Teams earned points in the same way as the group stage, but carrying their points forward from previous matches against the other teams who qualified from the same group to the "Super 8" stage.[46] The top four teams from the "Super 8" round advance to the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-finals play in the final. The current format, approved by ICC to be used in 2011 World Cup, features 14 teams allocated. Within each group, the teams will play in a round-robin format. The top four teams from each group will proceed to the knock out stage playing quarter-finals. Winners of the quarter-finals will play semi-finals and the winning semi-finalists will play in the final. [edit]Trophy Main article: Cricket World Cup Trophy The ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy is presented to the winners of the World Cup finals.

The current trophy was created for the 1999 championships, and was the first permanent prize in the tournament's history; prior to this, different trophies were made for each World Cup.[47] The trophy was designed and produced in London by a team of craftsmen from Garrard & Co over a period of two months. The current trophy is made from silver and gild, and features a golden globe held up by three silver columns. The columns, shaped as stumps and bails, represent the three fundamental aspects of cricket: batting, bowling and fielding, while the globe characterises a cricket ball.[48] It stands 60 cm high and weighs approximately 11 kilograms. The names of the previous winners are engraved on the base of the trophy, with space for a total of twenty inscriptions. The original trophy is kept by the ICC. A replica, which differs only in the inscriptions, is permanently awarded to the winning team.

[edit]Media coverage Mello The tournament is the world's third largest (with only the FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics exceeding it), being televised in over 200 countries to over 2.2 billion television viewers.[1][2][49][50] Television rights, mainly for the 2011 and 2015 World Cup, were sold for over US$1.1 billion,[51] and sponsorship rights were sold for a further US$500 million.[52] The 2003 Cricket World Cup matches were attended by 626,845 people,[53] while the 2007 Cricket World Cup sold more than 672,000 tickets.[54][55] Successive World Cup tournaments have generated increasing media attention as One-Day International cricket has become more established. The 2003 World Cup in South Africa was the first to sport a mascot, Dazzler the zebra. An orange raccoon-like creature known as Mello was the mascot for the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Stumpy, a blue elephant was the mascot for the 2011 World Cup.[56] [edit]Selection of hosts Civic Centre, South Africa honours the 2003 World Cup. Main article: Cricket World Cup hosts The International Cricket Council's executive committee votes for the hosts of the tournament after examining the bids made by the nations keen to hold a Cricket World Cup.[57] England hosted the first three competitions. The ICC decided that England should host the first tournament because it was ready to devote the resources required to organising the inaugural event.[13] India volunteered to host the third Cricket World Cup, but most ICC members believed England to be a more suitable venue because the longer period of daylight in England in June[58] meant that a match could be completed in one day.[59] The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the first hosted outside England, held in Pakistan and India.

Many of the tournaments have been jointly hosted by nations from the same geographical region, such as South Asia in 1987, 1996 and 2011, Australasia in 1992, Southern Africa in 2003 and West Indies in 2007. [edit]Tournament history Main article: List of ICC Cricket World Cup finals [edit]Performances by teams Map of each nation's best results Nineteen nations have qualified for the finals of the Cricket World Cup at least once (excluding qualification tournaments). Seven teams have competed in every finals tournament, five of which have won the title.[12] The West Indies won the first two tournaments, and Australia has won four, India has won two, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka have each won once.

The West Indies (1975 and 1979) and Australia (1999, 2003 and 2007) are the only nations to have won consecutive titles.[12] Australia has played in 6 of the 10 final matches (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007). England has yet to win the World Cup, but has been runners-up three times (1979, 1987, 1992).

The best result by a non-Test playing nation is the semi-final appearance by Kenya in the 2003 tournament; while the best result by a non-Test playing team on their debut is the Super 8 (second round) by Ireland in 2007.[12] Sri Lanka, who co-hosted the 1996 Cricket World Cup, was the first host to win the tournament, though the final was held in Pakistan.[12] India won the 2011 as host and was the first team to win in a final played in their own country.[60] Other countries which have achieved or equalled their best World Cup results while co-hosting the tournament are New Zealand, semi-finalists in 1992; Zimbabwe, reaching the Super Six in 2003; and Kenya, semi-finalists in 2003.[12] In 1987, co-hosts India and Pakistan both reached the semi-finals, but were eliminated by Australia and England respectively.[12] [edit]Entrants Year Number of teams 1975 8 1979 8 1983 8 1987 

8 1992 9 1996 12 1999 12 2003 14 2007 16 2011 14 2015 14 2019 10 [edit]Debutant teams Year Teams 1975 Australia, East Africa†, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies 1979 Canada 1983 Zimbabwe 1987 none 1992 South Africa 1996 Kenya, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates 1999 Bangladesh, Scotland 2003 Namibia 2007 Bermuda, Ireland 2011 none †No longer exists.

[edit]Overview The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams over past World Cups, as of the end of the 2011 tournament. Teams are sorted by best performance, then total number of wins, then total number of games, then by alphabetical order.

Team Appearances Best result Statistics Total First Latest Played Won Lost Tie NR Win% Australia 10 1975 2011 Champions (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007) 76 55 19 1 1 72.36 India 10 1975 2011 Champions (1983, 2011) 67 39 26 1 1 58.20 West Indies 10 1975 2011 Champions (1975, 1979) 64 38 25 0 1 59.37 Pakistan 10 1975 2011 Champions (1992) 64 36 26 0 2 56.25 Sri Lanka 10 1975 2011 Champions (1996) 66 31 31 1 2 46.96 England 10 19

75 2011 Runners-up (1979, 1987, 1992) 66 39 25 1 1 59.09 New Zealand 10 1975 2011 Semifinals (1975, 1979, 1992, 1999, 2007, 2011) 70 40 29 0 1 57.14 South Africa 6 1992 2011 Semifinals (1992, 1999, 2007) 47 31 14 2 0 65.95 Kenya 5 1996 2011 Semifinals (2003) 29 6 22 0 1 20.68 Zimbabwe 8 1983 2011 Super Six (1999, 2003) 51 10 37 1 3 1

9.60 Bangladesh 4 1999 2011 Super 8 (2007) 26 8 17 0 1 30.76 Ireland 2 2007 2011 Super 8 (2007) 15 4 10 1 0 26.66 Canada 4 1979 2011 Group Stage 18 2 16 0 0 11.11 Netherlands 4 1996 2011 Group Stage 20 2 18 0 0 10.00 United Arab Emirates 1 1996 1996 Group Stage 5 1 4 0 0 20.00 Bermuda 1 2007 2007 Group Stage 3 0 3 0 0 0.00 Namibia 1 2003 2003 Group Stage 6 0 6 0 0 0.00 Scotland 2 1999 200

7 Group Stage 8 0 8 0 0 0.00 East Africa† 1 1975 1975 Group Stage 3 0 3 0 0 0.00 †No longer exists.

[edit]Teams' performances Comprehensive teams' performances of over the past World Cups: Team 1975 1979 1983 1987 1992 1996 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 Australia 2nd R1 R1 1st R1 2nd 1st 1st 1st QF Q Bangladesh R1 R1 S8 R1 Q Bermuda R1 Canada R1 R1 R1 R1 East Africa† R1 England SF 2nd SF 2nd 2nd QF R1 R1 S8 QF Q India R1 R1 1st SF R1 SF S6 2nd R1 1st Q Ireland S8 R1 Kenya R1 R1 SF R1 R1 Namibia R1 Netherlands R1 R1 R1 R1 New Zealand SF SF R1 R1 SF QF SF S6 SF SF Q Pakistan R1 SF SF SF 1st QF 2nd R1 R1 SF Q Scotland R1 R1 South Africa SF QF SF R

1 SF QF Q Sri Lanka R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 1st R1 SF 2nd 2nd Q United Arab Emirates R1 West Indies 1st 1st 2nd R1 R1 SF R1 R1 S8 QF Q Zimbabwe R1 R1 R1 R1 S6 S6 R1 R1 Q †No longer exists.

Prior to the 1992 World Cup, South Africa was banned due to apartheid.

[edit]Legend 1st- Winner 2nd- Runner up SF – Semi-final S8 – Super Eight (2007 only) S6 – Super Six (1999–2003) QF – Quarter-finals (1996 & 2011) R1 – First round [edit]Awards [edit]Man of the tournament Main article: Cricket World Cup awards Since 1992, one player has been declared as "Man of the Tournament" at the end of the World Cup finals:[61] Year Player Performance details 1992 Martin Crowe 456 runs 1996 Sanath Jayasuriya 221 runs and 7 wickets 1999 Lance Klusener 281 runs and 17 wickets 2003 Sachin Tendulkar 673 runs and 2 wickets 2007 Glenn McGrath 26 wickets 2011 Yuvraj Singh 362 runs and 15 wickets [edit]Man of the Match in the World Cup Final Previously, there was no tournament award, although Man of the Match

 awards have always been given for individual matches.

Winning the Man of the Match in the final is logically noteworthy, as this indicates the player deemed to have played the biggest part in the World Cup final. To date the award has always gone to a member of the winning side.

The Man of the Match award in the final of the competition has been awarded to:[61] Year Player Performance details 1975 Clive Lloyd 102 runs 1979 Viv Richards 138* 1983 Mohinder Amarnath 3/12 and 26 1987 David Boon 75 runs 1992 Wasim Akram 33 and 3/49 1996 Aravinda de Silva 107* and 3/42 1999 Shane Warne 4/33 2003 Ricky Ponting 140* 2007 Adam Gilchrist 149 2011 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 91* [edit]Tournament records [edit]Main individual and team records Main article: List of Cricket World Cup records Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run-scorer in World Cup history. World Cup records[62] Batting Most runs Sachin Tendulkar 2278 (1992–2011) Highest average (min.

20 inns.) Viv Richards 63.31 (1975–1987) Highest score Gary Kirsten v UAE 188* (1996) Highest partnership Sourav Ganguly & Rahul Dravid (2nd wicket) v Sri Lanka 318 (1999) Most runs in a tournament Sachin Tendulkar 673 (2003) Bowling Most wickets Glenn McGrath 71 (1996–2007) Lowest average (min.

1000 balls bowled) Glenn McGrath 19.21 (1996–2007) Best bowling figures Glenn McGrath v Namibia 7/15 (2003) Most wickets in a tournament Glenn McGrath 26 (2007) Fielding Most dismissals (wicket-keeper) Adam Gilchrist 39 (1999–2007) Most catches (fielder) Ricky Ponting 28 (1996–2011) Team Highest score India v Bermuda 413/5 (2007) Lowest score Canada v Sri Lanka 36 (2003) Highest win % Australia 74% (Played 76, Won 55) Most consecutive wins Australia 26 (1999–2011) Most consecutive tournament wins Australia 3 (1999–2007)[63] Cricket World Cup Winners List (Till Now) ICC Cricket World Cup Winners List (Till Now) December 18, 2015 By totalsportek2 Leave a Comment ICC Cricket World Cup is the main flagship tournament

 of international cricket and it is held every four years.

Cricket World Cup is the third biggest sporting competition behind FIFA World Cup and Rugby World Cup. Cricket World Cup was started back in 1975 with the birth of One-Day cricket (50 over format) and West Indies went on to win the first two world cups. So far 11 world cups have taken place and Australia is the most successful team having won 5 world cup titles and finished runners-up three times. India and West Indies has the competition twice each while Pakistan and Sri Lanka are the only other teams to have lift the biggest trophy in world cricket. Australian Dominance: Australia won the most recent competition which took place in February-March 2015 co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia. Australia defeated New Zealand in the final to win their fifth world cup title in Melbourne. Australia also won three back to back titles in 1999, 2003 and 2007 and it was India who broke their winning streak in 2011 when they won their second world cup.

– India Looking Ahead: Next two world cup hosting nations are already decided with England hosting in 2019 while India will exclusively host in 2023 what will be the 13th edition of the biggest cricket prize. England has played two world cup finals and lost on both occasions in 1987 against Australia and than in 1992 against Pakistan. Australia is undoubtedly the greatest cricket nation and its hard to imagine any other team breaking their dominance in cricket for years to come. I would love to hear your thoughts about which is the greatest cricket nation and can any team break Australia dominance in near future ? So far only 6 teams has ever world the cricket world cup you think any other team can finally lift the coveted trophy ? let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

1975 cricket World Cup Home | Timeline | World Cup 2015 | ESPN Cricinfo Men of the Finals: When Clive Lloyd took the biggest stage by storm, in the title match of the first tournament Vignettes: 1 West Indies' last wicket stole victory in a thrilling last-over finish at Edgbaston Vignettes: 2 Alvin Kallicharran met fire with fire and smashed Dennis Lillee for 35 runs in 10 balls Vignettes: 3 England were wary of Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson going into the World Cup semi-final, but they were swung out by a 23-year old rookie Vignettes: 4

Question: Who in 1975 were the first ever winners of the Cricket World Cup?
Answer: WEST INDIES